"A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself" - Lisa Kirk

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Alternatives to Emigration for Unhappy Singaporeans. - "d) Stop thinking about what others feel about careers and family.
A lot of pressure comes from sabotage from one's own family. Many Singaporeans are comfortable being single as it is a very efficient arrangement. Others get married but never have children as they want to take advantage of dual incomes. A lot of stress disappears if you live your life the way you want to. So what if a relative thinks that being single and not having kids is abnormal? if you want to be a couple, have one kid or no kid but you want to travel 4 times a year, so be it."

YouTube - The Airplane Toilet Paper Experiment - "What happens when you roll toilet paper down the aisle of an airliner and then flush? Mark Malkoff conducts an experiment to find out while he lives aboard an AirTran airplane for 30 days."

Political detention in Singapore : Prisoner case histories - "Today, very little information is publicly made available about past detentions. Even the website of the Internal Security Department omits any mention of Operation Coldstore, Operation Spectrum or any such politically-motivated arrests carried out over the years. Only two ex-detainees, Said Zahari and Francis Seow, have written autobiographies. Upon further enquiries, however, I have manage to unearth a rare and rather comprehensive report, published in 1980, by an Amnesty International Mission to Singapore... 'Amnesty International believes that the Singapore Government has employed a variety of techniques to induce mental and spiritual collapse, including the denial of medication to persons suffering from diabetes and epilepsy, with the aim of extracting self-incriminating statements which can be potrayed as 'confessions'... Wong Kui Inn was arrested in July 1976. In a 'confession', she said she had acted as a courier passing medicine from Dr Poh Soo Kai to a Malayan Communist Party cadre. During her interrogation, she was subjected to torture with electric shocks and the repeated pouring of cold water over her body'"

The evolutionary origin of depression: Mild and bitter | The Economist - "Dr Nesse’s hypothesis is that, as pain stops you doing damaging physical things, so low mood stops you doing damaging mental ones—in particular, pursuing unreachable goals... Dr Wrosch thus concludes that it is healthy to give up overly ambitious goals. Persistence, though necessary for success and considered a virtue by many, can also have a negative impact on health. Dr Nesse believes that persistence is a reason for the exceptional level of clinical depression in America—the country that has the highest depression rate in the world. “Persistence is part of the American way of life,” he says. “People here are often driven to pursue overly ambitious goals, which then can lead to depression.”"

Why Casanovas are less likely to make women pregnant - "Research suggests that in many animal species, the most desirable males restrict their sperm load with each mating to ensure there is enough to go round. The same could be true of humans and other primates, say scientists. If they are right, women looking for the best chance of getting pregnant should steer clear of the handsome lotharios."

12,000 foetuses aborted in Singapore every year - ""Many husbands do not use condom right from the start of the sexual activity, (they) wait till they are near ejaculation before they put it on, and that defeats the purpose."... some [women] inaccurately think that birth control pills may be linked to cancer or weight gain... Every one in 300 abortions is likely to develop complications such as an injury to the womb or an infection, which can lead to infertility. The negative psychological effects of an abortion are also well documented."
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They're execs, yet behave immorally by hugging and kissing on MRT - "They are office executives, and yet they don't know how to behave! The photo shows that the woman is tying a tie for the man! How ridiculous! That’s why there are so many rapists around because of influences like this!"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I love STOMP

Late marriage, tight pants lead to fewer babies - "Marrying late in the case of women and tight pants for men have been blamed for causing infertility. Other reasons include smoking, casual sex and junk food, according to Pantai Hospital fertility specialist Dr V. Jeyabalan... He said career-oriented women were eating more junk food which mostly contained additives and meats that had been injected with hormones. They also have multiple sex partners, sometimes indulging in casual sex which resulted in sexually transmitted diseases. "Venereal diseases such as gonorrhoea and syphilis combined with previous abortions and smoking, which has gradually become increasingly common among women, can prevent conception and sometimes cause miscarriages.""
Malaysia Boleh! I bet he got his medical degree in Malaysia